This post was originally posted at Backstage at the Lowry Theater Company.
Backstage. What really does that mean? Will we share all of our secrets? Will we offer just a glimpse? Or will it be somewhere in between? I suspect there are certain things that we just cannot tell you about during [...]

I’ve watched a few movies over the last few days and I want to recommend some of them. The first one, that I thought was really entertaining was The Amateurs starring Jeff Bridges. This movie is a comedy about a man having a mid-life crisis and the town that supports him. It’s really a journey [...]

I was watching television the other night and a Sony commercial came on, where in the first few seconds a camera operator almost falls off of an icy cliff, but drops his shoulder mounted F23 camera. As it hits the ground it breaks into hundreds of tiny pieces. When that $200,000 camera hit the ground, [...]

I’m a mac guy. I admit it. I love Apple computers. I’m also a standards guys; NTSC, PAL, REC 709, HTML, and CSS. For video, we have scopes to tell us if we are meeting the standards requirements. We have Waveform monitors to show us the highlights, and the shadows, we have Vectorscopes to show [...]

Interlace.
As a digital filmmaker, interlace means only one thing; problems.
Interlace has been around in the NTSC standard since the beginning. It was a way to get more information over the limited bandwidth of broadcast television. Basically, Every other line of an image is displayed, 1,3,5,7,9 and then the ray gun returns to the top and [...]

First, I think the insiders were caught unaware by all these updates. RED.com
Download the RED NAB 2008 PDF
5K Epic Camera – Release EARLY 2009
* FULL FRAME S35MM NEW MYSTERIUM X SENSOR
* 1-100 FPS
* UP TO 100 MB/SEC. REDCODE RAW AND RGB RECORDING TO REDFLASH
* FULL SIZE DUAL LINK HD-SDI, 2-XLR AUDIO INPUTS AND HDMI
* WI-FI [...]

With NAB 2008 just around the corner, the internet is a buzz with predictions and anticipation. It’s the RED crowd that has really been hitting the buzz heavily with what they say will be 3 BIG announcements and 3 SMALL announcements.
The first obviously is the introduction of “Scarlett”, a pocket sized digital cinema camera. My [...]

The full RAID Saga can be found here:
http://www.bayareafilmmakers.com/?p=188
and here:
http://www.bayareafilmmakers.com/?p=196
I have finished my RAID and it’s wonderful. For starters, I moved up to a Mac Pro with PCI Express, so my old RAID card went with the old computer. My first AMS unit came with a PCIe RAID card so I plugged that in, and fired [...]

Well, ok. Just one. And, I suppose it might not actually be a mistake. But it sure is confusing.
The current issue of Videography has an article about the new Stacey Peralta Film, “Made in America.”
The beginning of the article talks about the need to shoot HD on this project over Super16mm film due to the [...]

I had the day off today, and I managed to put it to good use. I edited (not much left after Joel did his cut) our 2nd video podcast. I’m honestly not to sure about the future of our video podcasts. They take a lot more time then the audio podcast and I don’t think [...]